Confined vs Apart - What's the difference?
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(confine)
not free to move
To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; followed by on'' or ''with .
* Milton
* Dryden
Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.
* (rfdate)
* (rfdate) Ps. iv. 3.
In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently
Aside; away.
* (rfdate) Jas. i. 21.
* (rfdate)
In two or more parts; asunder; to piece
(following its objective complement) apart from.
Confined is a related term of apart.
As a verb confined
is (confine).As an adjective confined
is not free to move.As an adverb apart is
separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.As a preposition apart is
(following its objective complement) apart from.confined
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)confine
English
Verb
(confin)- Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined ! let order die!
- He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
- Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
- Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
Synonyms
* (limit) border, bound, limit English heteronyms ----apart
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- Others apart sat on a hill retired.
- The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself.
- Consider the two propositions apart .
- Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness.
- Let Pleasure go, put Care apart .
- to take a piece of machinery apart .
Antonyms
* togetherDerived terms
* apartness * apart from * fall apart * pull apart * set apart * take apart * tell apart * worlds apartPreposition
(English prepositions)- A handful of examples apart , an English preposition precedes its complement.